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Lonely, bored and afraid: it’s a WAG’s life

What use are bling and designer bags when his club treats you like dirt and girls on the pull can ruin any night out?

Alison Kervin

February 2 2010, 12:01am, The Times

Who’d be a WAG? Is there anyone left on the planet, after the unsavoury revelations about the love life of John Terry this weekend, who honestly believes that all the glittery hair accessories, handbags that cost more than the average family car and earrings so large you get whiplash every time you turn round, are worth the pain and humiliation that now seems endemic to the role? No wonder they wear sunglasses so large that they look like beetles — I’d be trying to hide my face from the world too.

Terry’s behaviour and his failed efforts to protect himself from the consequences of his actions appear to mark a new low in the lives of modern footballers, but this is certainly not an isolated…

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